The various suppliers were all picked to join a Hypersonic Technologies and Capability Development Framework (HTCDF) agreement, making them eligible to compete for eight lots worth a maximum value of £1 billion ($1.3 billion) over the next seven years.
By Tim MartinModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
Micael Johansson, Saab’s CEO, said that “combining advanced hardware and AI-enabled software, our Arexis sensor suite will strengthen the German defence with future-proof electronic warfare capability for decades to come.”
By Tim Martin
The UK lauded the test of the laser air defense weapon, developed by Britain’s defense innovation unit, just weeks after an American admiral said it was time to be more “intellectually honnest” about what the class of weapons can do.
By Tim Martin
James Heappey, UK armed forces minister, offered the latest comments about the incident that reportedly happened more than a year ago but has been shrouded in secrecy.
By Tim Martin
The new helicopters, to be based at Bardufoss Air Station in northern Norway, are to be used by the Norwegian Coast Guard for antisubmarine warfare (ASW) operations, but Oslo still has to decide on a separate acquisition to replace NH90 ASW capable platforms.
By Tim Martin
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Technical virtuosity is demanded for CONOPS like all-domain operations, and so is LVC simulation so the Navy, Air Force, and Army can train and fight as one.
By Breaking Defense
Military innovation and savings: Go commercial
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
The unorthodox choice to offer multiple shipbuilding profiles to lawmakers raised eyebrows, but the Navy’s top admiral is confident in the direction Congress wants to go.
By Justin Katz
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Northrop Grumman’s nearly century long commitment to shared success includes the Navy’s most storied aircraft, including the legendary “Cat” aircraft.
By Breaking Defense
The US should take the “next Virginia class that’s built, designate that to the Australian AOR, and [say] we’re going to dual-crew it with Australian sailors and US sailors,” Rep. Rob Wittman tells Breaking Defense.
By Colin Clark and Aaron Mehta
Only the Navy’s EP-3 signals intelligence plane, and the Air Force’s B-2 bomber, RC-135 family of reconnaissance aircraft and UH-1N helicopter met mission capable rate goals most years from FY11 to FY21.
By Valerie Insinna
“So when we talk about the 2027 window” for an invasion of Taiwan, “in my mind, that has to be a 2022 window or potentially a 2023 window,” said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday. “I can’t rule that out.”
By Valerie Insinna
The incident comes just two days after an IRGC Navy support ship seized and then released a similar drone.
By Justin Katz
The laser is scheduled for at-sea tests on the destroyer Preble in fiscal 2023.
By Justin Katz
In a new op-ed, Bill Greenwalt of AEI warns that the Biden administration has not publicly provided workable legislative proposals that would take aim at the ITAR challenges for AUKUS.
By Bill Greenwalt